The end of the traditional duel. “About 10,000 people” headed to the grave of Mahsa Amini, who died 40 days ago in Iran, on Wednesday, according to the Iranian news agency Isna.
Iran has been rocked by protests since the September 16 death of this young Iranian Kurdish woman, who died three days after her arrest in Tehran by morality police who accused her of violating the country’s strict dress code, including wearing the veil in public.
Dozens of people, mainly protesters but also members of the security forces, were killed during demonstrations described as “riots” by the authorities. Hundreds more, including women, have been arrested.
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“Following tensions and scattered clashes that occurred after the ceremony, the internet connection was cut in the town of Saghez for security reasons,” the Isna news agency reported on Wednesday. Saghez is a city in the Iranian province of Kurdistan where Mahsa Amini was from.
“Part of the crowd was ready for the confrontation” with the police, “one of the participants had raised the flag of Iraqi Kurdistan”, according to the ISNA agency.
The situation became “a bit tense” in the city after the return of the crowd but “there was no confrontation in the afternoon,” he says. “Some intended to attack an army center”, but “were dispersed by people present at the ceremony”.
Earlier in the day, the Iranian judiciary announced that it had indicted more than 300 people, bringing the official number of indictments linked to the protests in the country to more than 1,000.
Source: BFM TV
